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Binary Ninja vs radare2: catalog facts
Binary Ninjaradare2

Screenshots

Binary Ninja disassembly and decompiled code side by side with instruction addresses and navigation sidebarBinary Ninja control-flow graph with disassembly and Python console

Screenshots

radare2 visual panels showing registers, disassembly, functions, entropy, hexdump and a graph with the View menu open

Best for: Reverse engineers and malware analysts who want a scriptable decompiler

Best for: Command-line reverse engineering framework and binary analysis toolkit

Free + paid options

A free edition and a free cloud version exist; full features need a paid license.

Free

The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external services are separate.

Web Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Command line
  • Decompiles to readable C or the BNIL intermediate language
  • Scriptable through C++, Python and Rust APIs
  • Local and remote debugging built in
  • Can be tried quickly through the cloud version
  • It disassembles, emulates, debugs and patches binaries across a very wide set of architectures, and scripts through r2pipe from most languages.
  • Commercial license needed beyond the free edition
  • Real-time collaboration requires the Enterprise server
  • The command syntax is famously steep, and individual plugins carry different licences.
Downloadable app, Web application Downloadable app
Not open source Open source
License: Proprietary License: LGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Sources for Binary Ninja

Catalog checked September 23, 2026

Sources for radare2

Catalog checked September 22, 2026

“Not stated” means we have not confirmed it. Features can vary by device and plan.